Sub + ( had) +.

Past perfect progressive bildung. The teacher had corrected her mistake. 9b) eric finally came at six o'clock. As in the past perfect simple, the sentence has two parts:

She woke up early because she had taken a new job. This form emphasize the duration of one past event taking. If you want to elaborate for more advanced students, you can explain that the past perfect progressive is formed by combining the past perfect ( had + p.p.) plus the basic progressive pattern ( be + ‑ing verb ).

I had met him before he was my boss. Noun/pronoun + auxiliary verb + past participle…. Turn the following sentences into past perfect.

Bildung had + been + infinitiv + ing 3. The past perfect progressive (continuous) is used to describe an action that started in the past and was still in progress when a second action started. Use of the past perfect progressive.

It is similar to the present perfect progressive tense but. It is formed by adding the past participle of the verb to the auxiliary verb (had). The little girl had broken the window.

The past perfect progressive form, like. We use the same form of the auxiliary had every time regardless the subject. [examples:] (a) the police had been looking for the criminal for two years before they caught him.